In fact, the disks themselves are surprisingly reliable, the totally unreliable part of the system are the drives, with the quite unfortunate fact that broken drive can create disk that breaks other drives.
He also could be confusing Zip disks with the Jazz disks, which were only slightly better than writing your data to /dev/null.
Writing to /dev/null had the advantage of being far faster, and far more predictable.
You could say that about literally any storage mechanism. Writing to /dev/null will always be faster and more predictable, no matter what the alternative is.
but Jazz disks didn't have any better data retention than writing to /dev/null, whereas most alternatives do.
Bingo.
Cheaper, too.
Really? I wasn't aware of that problem in the system, any reference or article about that? I am just curios about the technical details why this was happening.
The Click-of-Death was the first hardware virus. No software was required to transmit it, nor could it be transmitted by software.